Myriam isn't dead yet, and in the meantime, does whatever form of art she possibly can.
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Eh, hello. Welcome in my space in the Woods. I'm 17 years old, and I'm in Cégep, which is your equivalent to Grade 12, but is in fact the pre-universitary level. I study in health care science. I live in Quebec (which I consider a country, but is still unfortunately a part of Canada). To me, art is the best form of expression; it must be used by all means. If instead of fighting, going into wars, people would vent off by doing art (through music, photography, painting, drawing, writing... anything), wouldn't the world be a much more enjoyable place? Art is the way I express what I feel, and what I do when I have any spare time. I draw, paint, sketch with charcoal, and many other materials. In fact, I like to try whatever's underhand, and that includes chocolate (it does work). I like to do art about fantasy, really any kind of fantasy, and dark things too. So I vary from colourful pictures to scary, morbid ones. I'm a bit paradoxal, I guess, but hey, that's me. I haven't been on Elfwood since I was thirteen, so me coming back and trying to post a gallery will probably have much different art than what it used to be. I've grown up, my stuff is less childish, and, best of all, I'VE LEARNED TO DRAW FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES! Lately, my painting has been, err, more like trees than fantasy, and what I'd like to do is learn to Photoshop. I still suck when it comes to using shadows, though, but I try. So, I'll do my best do get published pretty soon, although I do not have a scanner of my own, after all these years. Meh, I'm a future genetician. :P Hoping... One thing I'm wondering: why aren't I getting purple when I mix my red and blue acrylics together? I always tend to get this awful brown shade.
Interests
Music, art, reading, writing, movies, peace, the friends, and the boyfriend (Je t'aime).
Favorite Fantasy/Scifi Movies and TV Shows
I'm addicted to CSI:Las Vegas. Criminalistics rule.
As for movies, the god of movies is the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings. So perfect, in all regards. The first Pirates of the Carribean was also awesome. Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is fantastic, as is Monty Python's stuff. All Quentin Tarantino is the best: Pulp Fiction, both Kill Bill's...
I'm mostly an action/adventure fan, but fantasy rules as well. I hate romantic movies, I hate sappinness (though my friends and boyfriend are essentially all sappy).
I love Pan's Labyrinth. Even after one year of listening to it, that creature with its eyes in its hands still manages to make me have nightmares each time I watch it. I always feel concerned about its child-eating habits, you know, with me not quite being eighteen, there's still a chance it would take me for a child, and take an appetite for me as well.
Favorite Fantasy/Scifi Books
I read horror stories from the master of the genre, Patrick Senécal. He rocks. His books are supposed to be made in movies in Québec, all seven of them. Sur le seuil, which has already been made into a movie (was translated for English Quebecers under the name of Evil Words, if you're interested), has supposedly been bought by an American producer, so you might hear about it one day. Sur le seuil is my favourite book...
It's about an author who's found in his house after he cut off his fingers and tried to commit suicide by jumping from his window. He's kept in a psychiatric hospital, and the doctors try to take his out of his catatonic state. Paul Lacasse, his psychiatrist, does some follow-up on Thomas Roy (the guy who tried to kill himself), learns about his books, and about his past life, and discovers horror of no name.
Everybody else, though, seems to prefer another Patrick Senécal book: where the heroine, Aliss, escaping her middle-upper-class straightforward, boring life, ends up in an unknown part of Montréal, a dangerous place from which there is no escape. Tons of references to Nietzsche the girl misinterprets... and her life suddenly seems to spiral out of her grasp. She takes tons of drugs, starts having a wild sex life, meets rather, er, interesting people. Personally, it was an alright book, I found, but the sex and orgy scenes didn't really add much. It didn't have that much a purpose as the torture scenes had. Those were gripping. My dad thought the sex scenes were possibly the author's fantasies. I'd say if that's true, he's pretty messed-up. I met him in real life, I made him autograph my copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (well, Nietzsche is dead, isn't he? Might as well have an autograph in there somewhere). He wasn't that messed-up.
Currently, however, I am reading Les Bienveillantes. It is an on and off read, it has taken me more than a year, I am halfway through. It takes place during the second world war, where Maximilien Aue is some sort of low-graded commanding officer (Untersturmführer? Hauptsturmführer? Can't recall) in Ukraine, which the Nazis have taken over. To sum it up, the action is really, really, really slow-paced. The descriptions of war strategies is historically acurate, so good that it cannot be fiction. It has to be a documentary... However, I cannot root for Max Aue, the protagonist. He's a nazi. I cannot side with a Nazi. Also, he's one twisted chap. As a child, he was in love with his twin sister Una, and they had a love affair at the age of twelve. She moved on, he never did, and his desire to be with her mutated into a desire of being her, as he explains, so that's why he is homosexual. An odd cookie, he is. I have absolutely NOTHING against gay people (it's not like loving someone could be wrong, unless it were my boyfriend loving some other kid, then, that would be wrong, and I'd be mad), but you have to admit, Max Aue is really some twisted chap.
For now, I'm caught up with Stephenie Meyers' book, 'New Moon'. I adored 'Twilight', read it in two days. It's horrible the addiction it was for me. And, mwahaha, I've also contaminated my friends with the series. So they'll buy it in French.
Favorite Music
I'm an old rock kid. I was born in the wrong era. Thirty years too late to go to a David Bowie concert, forty years too late to witness Beatlemania firsthand... My favourite band is the Beatles. I also love Queen, Pink Floyd, the Clash, Supertramp, King Crimson, the Police, David Bowie, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, Van der Graaf Generator, Leonard Cohen (some. yeah, I am like that), Led Zeppelin, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (yeah, Lucky Man, and Fanfare for the Common Man, especially), Simon & Garfunkel, Cream (with Eric Clapton, y'know), Genesis (but only with Peter Gabriel, because I think that after his departure, and the guitar player's departure, Phil Collins ruined the group. Peter Gabriel wrote the best songs, and, you can't have a rock bad without a guitar) and other random stuff (an example: Hocus Pocus, by Focus). And, Nirvana.
I am an old school, progressive rock fan, and I like few modern artists/bands.
I love traditionnal Québec music, like la Bottine souriante. I like Mes aïeux, les Trois Accords, and particularily les Cowboys Fringants. Old Québec music I love: Harmonium, Offenbach, Richard Desjardins, Fiori-Séguin.
Apart from that, the only modern music I tend to listen to is industrial rock, and metal (talk about paradoxes). I love Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, and Slipknot. I am disinclined to listen to much else, because, well, because. I don't hate Nightwish, and Evanescence, and Apocalyptica (blame the latter on my boyfriend's influence), but I wouldn't buy. | 
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